Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society,… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share
